
Senior Operations Finance Analyst – Global Central Labs
Thermo Fisher Scientific
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: North Carolina • United States
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Salary
💰 $85,000 - $95,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Contributes to the achievement of financial and business objectives through accurate and timely financial analysis and reporting for complex projects/assignments
- Develop, standardize, and improve regular analyses and reports to share business and financial insights, and support monthly /quarterly /annual forecasting and budgeting process (i.e. support MBR, QBR, AOP, etc.)
- Translate business inputs into financial assumptions, build and maintain forecast models to project future business trends, results, etc. covering areas including revenue, new product launch, pricing, operating expense, CAPEX etc.
- Analyze and identify P&L drivers to help with risk and opportunities
- Performs variance analysis for assigned projects, accurate project budgets; and/or performs regular forecasting and analysis of revenues and costs by project, departmental, regional, or company level; and/or creates trackers, financial tools, dashboards and provides technical solutions by manipulating large datasets and compiling data
- Provides financial guidance to operations management and other staff
- Leads and participates in the analysis of cost assignments, ensuring all assigned projects carry out to accepted cost accounting standards
- Analyze transactional / operational data, identify anomalies, recommend accruals / reversals to ensure accurate reporting
- Tracks, maintains and/or interpret project information and budgets within the project accounting system; and/or takes part in reviewing and development of financial reports, tools, systems, policies and processes in support of financial management process and improved efficiency
- Provides decision-making support to management in assessing and minimizing the risk on revenue and gross profit and/or balances associated with assigned balance sheet accounts and/or financial processes and tools
- Build and update dashboards, PowerPoint and other business intelligence tools by data-mining in various systems
- Independently investigate data issues and/or information given, ask pertinent questions and identify root causes, collaborate with functional business partners and system support to improve data quality
- Proactively learn and adopt new systems and tools to improve analytics capability and accuracy
- Serves as a mentor and lead for team members
- Makes recommendations for process improvements and participates in special projects as assigned
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification
- Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 5+ years)
- Project leadership and consultancy skills with ability to function as an effective and respected partner to internal clients
- Sophisticated knowledge of accounting/financial principles and standard processes, for roles with more accounting focus a professional accounting qualification – ACCA / CPA / CIMA or equivalent will be an advantage
- Ability to apply sophisticated knowledge, skills, and expertise to analysis
- Good intuition for business with ability to understand sophisticated interpersonal structures and environments
- Excellent analytical and quantitative skills
- Sophisticated level of skill in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint for analysis and presentation of data, for roles with more technical focus previous experience with SharePoint / VBA / SQL / Power BI / RPA (comparable to 2+ years) will be an advantage
- Ability to work with ambiguity and complexity
- Proven executive presence and good presentation skills
Benefits
- A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan
- A wellness program, and valuable health incentive opportunities for company contributions to a Health Reimbursement Accounts (HSAs) or Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Tax-advantaged savings and spending accounts and commuter benefits
- Employee assistance programs
- At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO)
- 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, short- and long-term disability, and volunteer time off in accordance with company policy
- Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
financial analysisforecast modelsvariance analysiscost accountingdata analysisbudgetingfinancial reportingproject managementdata miningprocess improvement
Soft Skills
project leadershipconsultancy skillsinterpersonal skillsanalytical skillsquantitative skillsexecutive presencepresentation skillsproblem-solvingcollaborationadaptability
Certifications
Bachelor's degreeACCACPACIMA